Aviators

Aviators Bent steel Lenses reflective Of the river We came down On a blonde Freckled face Wearing a Camoflage ballcap And a sunburn Drenched Tank top atop Bikini swimsuit Pieces Ultraviolent From Apollo and Ra Glowing nuclear With catasrophic Power in redding Radiation That is what Is reflected

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Blame Me

Blame Me For what I am Shame me For the color hands I have Break me Apparently I deserve Hatred because of Things others do Because me My gender My tone My voice I might as well Be the rock bottom Barrel of the Genetic lottery Blame Me Because I can Be blamed Blame MeContinue reading “Blame Me”

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Spicy Dill Corn Dip

Spicy Dill Corn Dip I was too young to understand I know beneath my feet Is the floor of a trailer Used couches and Thrifted tables on Carpet forever tinged filthy white Cardboarded up Windows to the Tiny bedroom Two brothers share And a master bedroom With a dying grandmother Holding the lease for TheContinue reading “Spicy Dill Corn Dip”

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Rebloom

Rebloom Autumn to me Is when snow and leaves Both crunch Beneath my feet In August bloom When sixty one degrees Is blistering And makes me need To shed my three jackets It’s a kind of scent Of place That candle shops And scent chemists Can’t dream to Really replicate You’d have to be thereContinue reading “Rebloom”

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Lady Justice

Lady Justice We pray to you Our patron saint Who’s blindness Is only fair Who’s red shroud Tied around Her eyes Makes for justice With outstretched Hands on arms Holding weights in one And a scale in the other We pray to you our Lady Justice To help us through This trial bloodless None shedContinue reading “Lady Justice”

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Sorry for Being Perky

Sorry for Being Perky Red polo shirt With a name badge on I remember the candy bar And cola you bought For me A day late After My seventeenth birthday And took it to me In class I remember wondering Why? Why celebrate me? A stranger to you? I wondered inside But couldn’t confide InContinue reading “Sorry for Being Perky”

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